A listener writes “In the summer of 2002 I was 19 years old and back home from my first year of college. I had spent the year in Spain so being back in the countryside was a much needed recharge.
The Catskills, being in the Northeast, are blessed with an over abundance of fresh clean water. You can’t walk 100 yards in any direction in spring without having to cross an ephemeral stream or year round creek. So swimming is a big part of summer culture. Cliff jumping by day and lake swimming by night.
My friend Johannes, who is the witness to the Bigfoot jumping down onto and then leaping back off of the same foot, has a private lake deep in the woods of Jewett, NY. The lake can be accessed by car via an old grassy wagon trail.
One evening we were at the lake but it was chilly and remained in the car chatting. One of the greatest natural shows is to sit in the car with the headlights on next to the lake. Hundreds of moths and other insects will populate the illuminated area in front of the car. On the periphery of the lit air you can watch dozens of bats darting and swooping in to catch their arthropodic quarry like little flesh and blood WW2 fighter planes. It’s truly a sight to behold.
Because the car wasn’t on, I had to periodically turn the lights off as to not drain the battery. When I would do this I thought I noticed that the headlights would go dark but it seemed to take a moment’s delay for the area to return to total darkness. I wondered if my eyes were playing tricks on me because of the mist coming off the lake and onto the shore. It seemed to happen again and again. I didn’t say anything until my friend noticed it as well. It was as if we would turn the lights off and and half second later another light was turning off. It was strange.
We ultimately got out of the car to gaze at the starry night. Looking directly above us I noticed what at first I thought was a bright star that I didn’t recognize. Then it seemed too large to be a star and I was trying to figure out if it was Jupiter or Saturn. It seemed to twinkle more than usual and seemed to be getting slightly bigger and then smaller. That’s when we realized that this wasn’t a celestial body but technology of some kind.
As we began discussing it, it seemed to react to our being aware of it. It began to move ever so slightly and get bigger. That’s when I realized that this craft wasn’t high up in the atmosphere but was instead only a few hundred feet (or a thousand ) up in the sky. It was misleading in its distance from the ground because it was completely silent. It seemed to be aware that we were aware of it. That’s when it suddenly took off and disappeared over the horizon many times faster than a shooting star. It was SO impressive.
This craft was beaming a light down onto our car when we had our lights on. When we turned them off, so did the craft turn off the beam. Why it was doing this I cannot say.
I told a professor at school about this and he say it was a helicopter looking for pot farms. My reply was like, “Prof, please.” Choppers aren’t silent and capable of instantaneous acceleration to multiple mock speeds without breaking the sound barrier. What a lame skeptical explanation.
That was our ufo encounter. It was real and we knew damn well what we had just experienced. There was no confusion about it at all. There’s only one explanation when witnessing a craft operate outside our understanding of physics.”